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Book Review of Bars & Brownies: Recipes to Make Your Own Gifts (Gifts in a Jar)

Bars & Brownies: Recipes to Make Your Own Gifts (Gifts in a Jar)
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Helpful Score: 12


There are 21 recipes (4 Brownies and 17 Bars) in this cookbook. Each recipe has 2 pages of cut-out Gift Tags (6 per recipe) with the recipe just after the mix recipe, which is convenient, but kind of odd when you are flipping through looking for the Mix Recipes. Also, there is no Table of Contents, Index, or page numbers. 128 pages total. Spiral bound, 5 1/4" x 8 1/4" Paperback. ISBN-10: 1563831236 (Item #3003)

All pages are made of cream colored thick card stock paper, inside is all black and white, no photos. There is 1 page at the beginning on how to decorate the jars and attach the tags. The gift jars are supposed to keep up to 6 months without nuts and 3 months for those with nuts. Looks like fun!

Recipes:
Brownies
Double Fudge Brownies
Butterscotch Brownies
Sand Art Brownies
Chewy Butterscotch Nut Bars
White Christmas Bars
Chocolate Chip Bars
Oatmeal Scotchie Bars
M and M Bars
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Bars
Dreamsicle Bars
Oatmeal Raisin Bars
Hawaiian Bars
Chocolate-Macademia Nut Bars
Chunky Chocolate Bars
Gourmet Bars
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars
Pecan Bars
Raisin Nutty Spice Bars
Peanut Butter Bars

Recipes for the final product call for butter or margarine, eggs, or milk, but most can probably be made vegan, cholesterol-free, dairy-free or egg-free with a vegan trans-fat free margarine such as Earth Balance, egg replacer such as Ener-G and soy or nut milk and vegan or dark chocolate, though I haven't tried any of the recipes as of yet.

The M and M Bars call for 1 cup of M AND M CANDIES and the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Bars call for 8 large REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER CUPS.

Two recipes call for BUTTERMILK BISCUIT AND BAKING MIX (Chewy Butterscotch Nut Bars, White Christmas Bars)

One recipe calls for 1/2 cup TANG INSTANT BREAKFAST DRINK POWDER (Dreamsicle Bars).

The rest of the mix recipes call for normal ingredients like flour and sugar, etc...